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To: DoughtyOne
Armenian Genocide
8 posted on 10/11/2007 12:32:50 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
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To: XeniaSt; Grimmy; Wiz
My comments here are a result of activism in my community to set up an Armenian holiday in my home town to commemorate the events of 1915-1917 in the vicinity of Turkey. That’s half-way around the world from where I reside. It has no business being institutionalized here. Remember it in Armenia and be done with it.

Is there a national holiday for the Jewish Holocaust? No. Why then should our flag be replaced with the Armenian flag for one day and all city offices close? Yep, this is the demand. It’s just one more group that thinks this nation must change to suit them, not them change to fit in here.

I don’t defend Turkey for doing anything wrong in 1915-17. If the facts bear out that they were the sole aggressors and there weren’t mutual hostilities, then Turkey should apologize. I don’t dispute that. However, we’re ninety years down the road since these events took place, and although we shouldn’t forget it, it’s idiotic to affront a nation that has held off against provocateurs going across the border onto it’s soil.

What would we do to Mexico if it were sending in armed insurgents to kill people by design? It’s bad enough that foreign nationals just show up here and abuse our system, but if there were an insurgency, I don’t think we’d sit by like Turkey has for the most part.

I’m just not buying into the official condemnation at this time. If it could wait for 90 years, it’s extremely il-advised to do it while our troops are on the ground in theater.

13 posted on 10/11/2007 12:54:42 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Hillary has pay fever. There she goes now... "Ha Hsu, ha hsu, haaaa hsu, ha hsu...")
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